LED Lighting has been slowly progressing through our town and homes slowly replacing the inefficient incandescent light bulbs that were invented so long ago by a Mr Joseph Swan. Not the name you thought, well history does not always tell the correct story.

Technology and Environmental ideals are pushing the old bulbs out and replacing them with the LED. Your home is full of lighting that can be replaced with more energy efficient bulbs that will save you large amounts on your lighting costs. But that is just the start. Simply replacing a bulb for a bulb is not enough for innovators and designers they want to make your life better.

A hint of what might be can be seen from Yanko Design Segmented LED Light Bulb Concept. Just being energy efficient is not enough here. Instead of lighting up all the room, the design allows just parts, or segments to be illuminated. As well as being able to add ambient lighting effects to your room this would massively lengthen the life of the bulb. LED lights already have a much longer lifespan. Less wasted lighting also means less energy cost. If you thought you were saving a bundle then you could save even more.

Low energy lighting lends itself to lots of uses that will soon be commonplace in this decade. You could imagine Yanko Design taking this a step further. Maybe a pair of house slippers tracking your movement around the home. If its 3am in the morning and your slippers feel your feel slide into them then its a good chance that you might be going to the bathroom. Maybe the lights should be turned on automatically for you. Or it’s just approaching 9pm and you are tracked from the kitchen to the sofa in the living area. How about some nice cosy TV lighting without even thinking about it.

Some day these ideas might come to fruition but in the meantime go and save yourself a bundle and convert your lighting to LED.

Images: YankoDesign

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